Stunned and Amazed in the Uttermost West.
In a city where every newsagency has the same tiny selection of magazines and none of them the ones I regularly buy and read, and where each and every music store and book store has just about the same tiny set of titles at the same overinflated prices, I expected the same for video rentals.
Instead I was absolutely gobsmacked last night when I walked into the last of a large collection of video rental shops in the near inner-city area of Perth. I walked around the shelves in utter amazement, coming across copy after copy of classic, arthouse and foreign movies I have long had on my list of viewing to catch up on but had not come across in any other store, in this city or any other in all of Oz.
It was all I could do just to restrain myself and resolve to keep coming back on a regular basis to begin working my way through what has become a very lengthy list. But the thing that really made my day, or rather night because my journey had lasted well into the evening, was when I found some shelves full of music videos.
As if it knew I was desperate for it, NewOrder Story seemed to jump off the shelf right into my hand. NewOrder Story is a documentary full of interviews and video clips about New Order, made in 1993 just before, or maybe just after, the band split up for half a decade until they reformed as if nothing had ever happened in the years between in 1998.
The video store is Planet Video, in Mount Lawley, and I am impressed to say the least. Don’t bother taking a look at their website however. The Coming Releases section has not been updated for at least half a year, and the design and content poorly reflects the quality of the store itself.
The NewOrder Story VHS cover. Essential research material for a magazine article on the upcoming movie 24 Hour Party People.
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